Applying the new 1996 NEC rules for motor circuits

Fundamental changes are on tap for motor circuits as provisions, largely unaltered since the 1940 NEC, are drastically modified or deleted entirely.Motor circuits have always had a special place in the Code because they are, by far, the most important example of a circuit where the short-circuit and ground-fault protection usually occurs at a different point in the circuit, and uses a different device

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